Ursula Goodenough Quotes

Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Ursula Goodenough

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• Fall
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• Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Important
  • Education
  • Utah

• If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Memories
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Small

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Fall
  • Place
  • Warm

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  

  Oliver North
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Education
  • Leadership

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Time
  • Education
  • Saying

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Education

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

  

  Geoffrey Holder
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Knows

• Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Law

• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Attention
  • Daughter
  • Impossible

• My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Father
  • Thought
  • Would

• My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Different
  • Art
  • Strong

• Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Education
  • Fall
  • Memories